Stephen is an experienced all-rounder with a ‘can do’ attitude and a proven track record for designing, developing and delivering creative and pragmatic solutions especially when faced with requirements of an uncommon, unusual, or challenging nature. He has a multi-disciplined background acquired on a wide variety of projects for both public and private sector clients. Since 1987 he has been a successful freelance consultant holding a succession of technical lead roles where his depth and breadth of experience coupled with his ability to leverage multiple skills and exploit existing systems has provided tangible benefits to his clients. He is prepared to lead, take ownership of a problem to its resolution, challenge requirements, validate assumptions, has the flexibility to assume many roles, can quickly adapt to new situations and procedures and can apply himself in both structured and unstructured environments. Stephen believes strongly that ownership, end-to-end involvement, common sense and the ability to communicate a single authoritative view of a project to a wider audience are key factors to its success.To complement his consultancy activities Stephen develops tools, utilities and applications between client assignments to maintain his development skills and exploit experience gained into assets that can be reused on similar projects.